Police negotiators are routinely portrayed in movies as only communicating from a distance with a megaphone.

But for the negotiators in Victoria Police’s Critical Incident Response Team, when they’re dealing with sieges, hostage incidents, mental health crisis interventions and more, they always try to operate face-to-face.

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